Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] WIRELESS NETWORK

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:28:30 +0200
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:48:25PM +0000, tara oneill wrote:
<some html stuff that my mailer won't include by default, thus empty>

When in peer to peer (IBSS) mode, 802.11 sends the packet directly to the
peer. When in  Access-Point (BSS) mode, 802.11 sends the packet to the
AP, which in turn sends it to the client - thus a sniffer will see the
packet twice.

 ciao
  Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                            <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want ist just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.